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3rd - 8th Grade Common Core Figurative Language Worksheets : Page 4

Take an Earth Day-themed adventure through this figurative language maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Earth Day Similes

Kids complete sentences with idioms in this worksheet.

Making Sense of Idioms

Successful students set sail with alliteration! Use this resource with your students to practice writing sentences using alliteration.

Figurative Language: Alliteration Sentences

Play around with word sounds in this figurative language worksheet! Learn to identify assonance and consonance, two common poetic devices.

Assonance and Consonance

Students will learn common animal sound words in different languages!

Animal Sounds Around the World

Invite learners to practice identifying examples of hyperbole with this fun Earth Day maze!

Figurative Language Maze: Earth Day Hyperbole

Introduce your students to visual puns with these fun images! Then, challenge them to come up with their own visual puns.

Visual Puns

Engage your students with food puns to excite their appetites and brains!

Fun with Food Puns #1

Get plenty of practice with alliteration by identifying and creating alliterative sentences.

Identifying Alliteration, Descriptive Adjectives, and Nouns

After reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, challenge students to think about the symbolism of the costumes in the novel and get creative!

Novel Study: The Hunger Games: Costume Symbolism

Give your learners some fun figurative language practice with Valentine&#39;s Day-themed similes!

Figurative Language Maze: Valentine's Day Similes

Get ready for some serious fun! Your students will be amused as they learn to identify oxymorons in sentences. Then, they will write their own.

Seriously Funny Oxymorons

Students will play with words as they explore a variety of oxymorons in this fun worksheet. As kids identify these contradictory terms and integrate them into sentences, they’ll see how figurative language can add humor and intrigue to their writing!

Inside Out Oxymorons!

Support students&rsquo; comprehension and analysis of S.E. Hinton&rsquo;s novel The Outsiders with these discussion questions for chapters 9-12.

Novel Study: The Outsiders: Discussion Guide #3

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

Mixed-Up Idioms

Learners will practice identifying and decoding figurative language as they read and decipher five practice sentences.

Play on Words

In this engaging worksheet, learners will practice identifying, working with, and writing hyperboles.

Fun With Hyperboles

Challenge your students to find the definitions of each homograph that give these puns their double meaning.

Puns with Homographs

Children draw the literal meaning of a few idiomatic expressions as they consider their true social meaning.

Show Your Idioms

When your students read this silly poem, they will find examples of hyperbole. Then, they will make a connection to another language concept: superlatives!

More Hyperbole in Poetry

Puns offer kids the chance to have fun with figurative language! Your students will giggle as they find homophones in each of these silly puns.

Puns with Homophones #2

Have a laugh (or a groan) with this fun figurative language worksheet all about puns!

Puns in Context

Help your budding wordsmiths develop their figurative language skills with this fun pun activity! This is a great worksheet for students to practice identifying and using homophones as they work to create their very own puns!

Pun with Homophones

Engage your students with eggciting wordplay and food puns!

Fun with Food Puns #2

This worksheet is a beast! That's a metaphor, and your child will be writing their own metaphors in no time, then they can use them in a poem.

Animal Metaphors

Students will learn to identify personification using nouns and verbs as signal words!

Identifying Personification with Nouns and Verbs

Give your learners fun practice identifying hyperboles with this sweet figurative language maze.

Figurative Language Maze: Valentine's Day Hyperbole

Help your students understand figurative language as they practice identifying homonyms!

Fun with Puns

Encourage creativity and critical thinking about the characters in The Hunger Games with this artistic extension activity!

Novel Study: The Hunger Games: Character Archetype Trading Cards

Put all your Easter eggs in this worksheet! Help your students use the context of a sentence to discover the meaning of these Easter idioms.

Easy Easter Idioms

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